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> For our existing public cloud and private data center customers, adding scale, financial muscle, and Samsung as both a partner for innovation and as a large anchor tenant customer for Triton and Manta, will pay big dividends. The tenant is now too large, please move out.
Fun fact, in 2008 Joyent was Twitter’s host and asked them to leave.
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Hindsight is 20/20. Linode (founded 16 years ago), and Digital Ocean (founded 8 years ago), are still alive and kicking, not to mention more traditional hosting companies like HostGator.
DigitalOcean have no serverless product and just spent a bunch of engineering resources on a new customer-managed Kubernetes setup. The amount of people who are unsatisfied with DO's VM product and would be satisfied with a k8s product is tiny. The amount of people who would like somewhere to run functions and not care at all about infrastructure is growing rapidly. If they're not skating to where the puck is moving…
Can anyone explain Joyent to me? My understanding always was that they're some special kind of hosting provider. But I never really got it. They sponsor Node.js, they sponsor all kinds of ex-Sun Solaris-related stuff, employing high profile people from both communities. What does supporting (and, at a time in the past, basically running) Node.js get a hosting provider? What about Joyent's products is related to Node…
Last I heard Samsung had acquired them.
Can anyone explain Joyent to me? My understanding always was that they're some special kind of hosting provider. But I never really got it. They sponsor Node.js, they sponsor all kinds of ex-Sun Solaris-related stuff, employing high profile people from both communities. What does supporting (and, at a time in the past, basically running) Node.js get a hosting provider? What about Joyent's products is related to Node…
Can anyone explain Joyent to me? My understanding always was that they're some special kind of hosting provider. But I never really got it. They sponsor Node.js, they sponsor all kinds of ex-Sun Solaris-related stuff, employing high profile people from both communities. What does supporting (and, at a time in the past, basically running) Node.js get a hosting provider? What about Joyent's products is related to Node…
They where a company that was around when node took off, so they offered products and services around that. Last I heard Samsung had acquired them.
Can anyone explain Joyent to me? My understanding always was that they're some special kind of hosting provider. But I never really got it. They sponsor Node.js, they sponsor all kinds of ex-Sun Solaris-related stuff, employing high profile people from both communities. What does supporting (and, at a time in the past, basically running) Node.js get a hosting provider? What about Joyent's products is related to Node…
The death knell really being the abandonment of illumos-gate as the authoritative ZFS upstream. If old-school diehards like Matt Ahrens are throwing up their hands and saying that the momentum in ZFS is in ZoL, the battle is over IMO.
node.js was always a diversion IMO. I think it was a play to maintain relevance, something Joyent has always acknowledged a need to do, but I don't think they've ever had the manpower or the buy-in to go full throttle.
I don't know if this is the end of Joyent as such or not, but IMO it's finally time for Cantrill et al to turn in. They've undoubtedly fought the good fight, but illumos is a farce at this point. Better to accept that their old-school big Unix development model is a thing of the past and put those efforts to something more practically useful, like FreeBSD. At this point, they're torturing the legacy of Solaris more than maintaining it.
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Joyent really doesn’t have a great track record on shutting down services... That said my view on the company is very much tainted by what happened many years ago when they where a different type of company all together. I personally purchased a few of their ‘VC’ plans before they when all enterprise.
If anyone's curious, some of that history was documented here: http://billturner.github.io/2014/02/28/whats-happened-to-tex...
TextDrive (bought by Joyent) was one of the first hosting services to support Ruby On Rails as a first-class service -- in the days when static hosting, PHP, Perl, and Java/Tomcat were the only options on Linux infrastructure. They were well-noted for their "lifetime hosting" membership deal, which was incredibly exciting at the time (this was in a day where flat-fee and free hosting outside the likes of MySpace and…
Also I just remembered Strongspace (which was one of their products back then), very compelling and well designed online storage (e.g. for backup) back then. In a way this could have grown into Dropbox or Box when you think of it. The Joyent email + calendar + notes web app was also quite impressive at the time. So many memories.
> For our existing public cloud and private data center customers, adding scale, financial muscle, and Samsung as both a partner for innovation and as a large anchor tenant customer for Triton and Manta, will pay big dividends. The tenant is now too large, please move out.
Fun fact, in 2008 Joyent was Twitter’s host and asked them to leave.